For two years from 1908 he was chairman of the education committee. In 1910-11 he acted as agent-general for Western Australia, and among the other positions he filled were member of Senate of the University of London (1908–21), governor of Imperial College of Science (1908–16), chairman, London intelligence committee on unemployment and distress (1914), chairman of London County Council (1915; de facto Leader 1911-15: the position of Leader was not officially recognised until 1933), and member central appeal tribune (1915–16 and 1917–18). He did much war work and was vice-chairman of the war pensions committee. He represented the board of education at two conferences held in the United States, and found time to write two books, Unemployment and Trade Unions (1910), and Outlines of Education in England (1913). He also collaborated with A. Riley and M. E. Sadler in another, The Religious Question in Public Education. He never lost his interest in Western Australia and only two days before his death attended a meeting at the agent-general's office to give his advice on a Western Australian educational problem. Jackson died on 3 September 1924, he had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1917. References 1863 births 1924 deaths British Anglicans Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire British educational theorists People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of London County Council Municipal Reform Party politicians Members of the London School Board Mayors of places in Western Australia Western Australian local councillors